Forgetting Items

The Social Experience of Alzheimer's Disease

Baptiste Brossard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2019
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253044969 (ISBN)

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Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. From the moment a person is suspected to be suffering from Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the interactions they encounter progressively change. Forgetting Items focuses on that social experience of Alzheimer's, delineating the ways disease symptoms manifest and are understood through the interactions between patients and the people around them. Mapping out those interactions takes readers through the offices of geriatricians, into patients' narratives and interviews with caregivers, down the corridors of nursing homes, and into the discourses shaping public policies and media coverage. Revealing the everyday experience of Alzheimer's helps us better understand the depth of its impact and points us toward more knowledgeable, holistic ways to help treat the disease.

Baptiste Brossard is a French sociologist and Lecturer at the Australian National University. He is author of Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?: Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Organization of Repairing Exchanges
Chapter Two: Losing Credibility
Chapter Three: The Deference Industry
Chapter Four: Reconstituting People
Conclusion
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2018
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
ISBN-13	9780253044969 / 9780253044969
Zustand	Neuware